An introduction to the covariant quantization of superstrings

DOI10.1088/0264-9381/20/12/304MaRDI QIDQ4440735zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Pietro Antonio Grassi, Giuseppe Policastro, Peter van Nieuwenhuizen

Publication date 2003

Published in Classical and Quantum Gravity (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0302147

zbMATH Keywords

covariant quantizationsuperstring

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Variational problems concerning extremal problems in several variables; Yang-Mills functionals (58E15) Quantization of the gravitational field (83C45) String and superstring theories in gravitational theory (83E30)

Abstract: We give an introduction to a new approach to the covariant quantization of superstrings. After a brief review of the classical Green--Schwarz superstring and Berkovits' approach to its quantization based on pure spinors, we discuss our covariant formulation without pure spinor constraints. We discuss the relation between the concept of grading, which we introduced to define vertex operators, and homological perturbation theory, and we compare our work with recent work by others. In the appendices, we include some background material for the Green-Schwarz and Berkovits formulations, in order that this presentation be self contained.

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